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Aïcha Fofana

Died in 2003

Aïcha Fofana was born in 1957 in Bamako, the daughter of Bénitiéni Fofana, Minister of Health. After school in Bamako and Bordeaux and the Lycée Notre-Dame du Niger, she studied languages at the Sorbonne, at the University of Mannheim, then in England, and became a translator and interpreter of English and German. She also wrote for the stage: one of her plays, directed against corruption and abuses of power, was widely noticed in 1997. She died in Bamako on 16 August 2003.

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